Smoking Venue And Hoster

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Musicman51, if you look at the design of the cooling board, it is actually blowing air along the bottom (outside) of the case to disipate heat from there and not actually blowing air directly into the laptop.
I can see if a computer is in a small room with someone directly around the computer how smoke would eventually build up enough to cause a problem, but in a much larger room such as a bar or restuarant I don't see this as a problem for it.
Texas is another of those states who have not adopted a statewide smoking ban, though most of the major cities have. So we deal with it too. However, as a smoker and one who has smoked around his computers since home computers became available, I have never seen any kind of tar build up on any of them except on the outside. Unless you had your cigarette directly in front of the air intake it would be very hard for the tar to travel inside of the computer.

Mine blows away from the openings, so as to create a negative pressure so the warm air inside can be replaced by the "clean"(room) air. Either way it is done having inside air (warm) needing to be replaced with outside air (cooler) to have any cooling effect, but in a smoke-filled room the outside air is "filled" with smoke and is drawn through over and over. (the number of air changes is one factor that determines the cooling rate).

I'm also pretty sure that most companies that manufacture products that are highly competitive (such as computers and laptops) that Apple, Inc. has taken hundreds (if not thousands) of well documented quality control tests in controlled environments that led them to make their decision about the warantee coverage.